Early Earthquakes of the Americas - Hardcover

Kovach, Robert L.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521824893 ISBN 13: 9780521824897

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

There is emerging interest among researchers from various subject areas in understanding the interplay of earthquake and volcanic occurrences, archaeology and history through the discipline of archaeoseismology. This book focuses on the historical earthquakes of North and South America, and describes the effects of those earthquakes, using illustrated examples of recent structural damage at archaeological sites.

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Book Description:

There is emerging interest amongst researchers from various subject areas in understanding the interplay of earthquake and volcanic occurrences, archaeology and history. This discipline has become known as archaeoseismology. Early Earthquakes of the Americas focuses on the historical earthquakes of North and South America, and describes the effects those earthquakes have had using illustrated examples of recent structural damage at archaeological sites. It is written at a level that will appeal to students and researchers in the fields of earth science, archaeology, and history.

Review:

"Early Earthquakes of the Americas is entertaining, intellectually satisfying, and certainly not short on factual and physical detail."
James F. Ni, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces

"Well written, clear, and concise and is well worth reading for those with an interest in earethquakes and the impacts of natural disasters on indigenous peoples of the Americas."
Canadian Journal of Archaeology

"Sleuthing out the occurrence of prehistoric earthquakes has a practical value. It provides data about the frequency and intensity of earthquakes along known faults, improving the understanding of the risks there. So it's an area of serious, important academic pursuit. But it's also way cool. And its especially cool when piecing together the prehistoric earthquakes of the Americas which, Robert Kovach points out, are often shrouded in the myth and mystery of the early people here ... All of this and more is included in this interesting volume that digs deeply into the earthquake history of the Americas over the last five hundred years or so."
Dan Whipple, The Observer

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0521824893
• ISBN 13: 9780521824897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286